La cucaracha: Rise of the Roaches!

This is the beginning of the end. They say cockroaches are the only species that can survive a nuclear winter? (I know some that lived through a minute worth a cooking in a microwave)Why and How? I don't know. I'd like to step on them all. But let's read about them first. The Captain may know something we do not - or do they?
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LaCucaracha:
Rise of the Roaches!

Chapter One The Infestation

It was starting to get cold
and we were hungry. We had to come out. Some of the expectant
mothers were so weak. We just had to come out. I hated to come
out because I knew how we would get treated. It was the same in
every household I had ever been in.

"Get ready you
cock-a-roaches," shouted The General.

Two scouts scurried over the
wall and scuttled towards The General.

"Lights out General," said one
scout.

"All are sleep and they left
meat!" rhymed the other.

This news tinged our feelers
and set our antennae on edge. Everyone was excited about
gathering meat for the colony. I was apprehensive at best.

This house had been us-free
for two decades because the previous owners were children free
clean freaks who hired assassins to keep us out.

The new owners were our types
with the bonus of four messy little ones who would not pick up
behind themselves.

"You ready Captain?" Frop
nudged me.

"Yeah, snap out of it!"
whispered Froppo

Frop and Froppo always knew
when I was feeling a certain kind of way. They were my
lieutenants. They had been with me through five regenerations.

"Maybe you were wrong about
the poison levels in this house now," reasoned Frop.

"It's not that," I said as I
watched several military units infiltrate the hole in the wall.
"The General didn't even glance at the profiles we made of these
new household inhabitants."